Title

Authors

Files

Publication Date

12-11-2018

Disciplines

Behavioral Medicine

Description

Medical/Surgical units often lack behavioral health specialty resources to identify and support individuals with mental health and substance misuse conditions. Not addressing these issues increases costs, imposes undue burdens on staff, intensifies patient agitation, and impairs the care experience for individuals and their families. Our behavioral health teams proactively identify, assess and intervene on patients in our medical/surgical units while supporting and teaching medical/surgical staff how to more effectively interact with these populations.

ObjectivesObjectives for Johns Hopkins:

Describe some of the considerations that go into formation of a pro-active psychiatric consultation service